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Obsidian.md Org mode Zim Wiki Notion
  1. A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
    Lot's of people have mentioned Obsidian, which made me think of Obsidian Portal (completely different company). It's both wysiwyg and/or markdown language wiki worldbuilding tool, that segregates player data and GM data, so the players can add stuff without seeing or altering what the GM has put in. This takes quite a load off the GM, to the point I've started awarding reroll tokens to players that update articles and session notes (and anyone who does session notes 5 times gets a "nat 20" token on the 5th time instead of just a reroll.).

    #Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1454 social mentions

  2. Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    If you are of the Emacs inclination, org-roam (implying org-mode) writes and organizes notes; magit (implying Git) can store them.

    #Task Management #Project Management #Note Taking 174 social mentions

  3. Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I use Zim, a native wiki with interlinkable pages, tagging and hierarchies. The source of a project is just a bunch of plaintext markdown files in folders which is easily cloud-backupable (there is no mobile frontend I'm afraid). I went back to it after using OneNote despite being lighter on features, but I guess I like the simplicity of Zim. Most of my content is worldbuilding though.

    #WiKi #Note Taking #Task Management 115 social mentions

  4. 4
    All-in-one workspace. One tool for your whole team. Write, plan, and get organized.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I use notion.so for the notes that are meant for my eyes. Session notes, ongoing plots, random NPCs, things I plan to give to the players, loose threads I gotta tie up later.

    #Productivity #Work Collaboration #Note Taking 438 social mentions

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